• Front cover of We Know How To Hate: The Opus Dei Society Story by Frans de Waard.
  • Interior spread from We Know How To Hate featuring The New Mentality compilation and a THU live cassette release.
  • Interior spread from We Know How To Hate with a feature on Con-Dom and cassette artwork.
  • Interior spread from We Know How To Hate with the Christian Nijs chapter and Kapotte Muziek cassette image.
  • Interior spread from We Know How To Hate showing archival performance photographs and text on Opus Dei Society activities.
  • Back cover of We Know How To Hate: The Opus Dei Society Story with publisher text and green design.
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We Know How To Hate - the Opus Dei Society Story

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We Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story is a compact Korm Plastics book by Frans de Waard documenting the history of the harsh noise cassette label Opus Dei Society through label notes, interviews, reprinted texts, and underground scene material.

  • Book on the Opus Dei Society cassette label
  • Written by Frans de Waard
  • Covers harsh noise, power electronics, and obscure cassette culture
  • Includes interviews, reprints, and release-by-release notes
  • Softcover, 88 pages, 17 × 24 cm
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About the Book

We Know How To Hate — Opus Dei Society, harsh noise, and cassette underground history

We Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story follows the short but highly specific history of Opus Dei Society, the harsh noise cassette label Frans de Waard started about a year after founding Korm Plastics and Kapotte Muziek in 1984. The label released only twenty-three cassettes, but the catalogue opens onto a dense network of radical sound, small-edition production, and underground circulation.

The book works best as a scene document rather than a simple discography. Frans de Waard moves through each release while also building a wider picture of the people, labels, and relationships around the project. Along the way, the book includes interviews with figures such as Vidna Obmana, Don van Dijk, David Padbury, Eriek van Havere, Stef Windelinx, and Ameury Perez, while Peter Zincken adds autobiographical notes.

What gives the publication extra weight is the variety of material brought together in a small format. There are reprinted pieces from the past, including interviews with Con-Dom and THU20, as well as texts on Christian Nijs and his label Disbuse Transmissions, and on the early work of Peter Zincken as Odal. That makes the book useful not only as label history, but as a concentrated archive of harsh noise and cassette-era underground culture.

23 cassettes, interviews, reprints, and scene memory

  • Documents all 23 Opus Dei Society cassette releases
  • Centres on harsh noise, power electronics, and small-edition underground music
  • Includes interviews with key participants from the scene
  • Reprints earlier texts and related fanzine material
  • Relevant for readers of cassette culture, industrial history, and DIY music press

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About the Author

Frans de Waard and Opus Dei Society

Frans de Waard has been active in experimental sound culture since 1984 and is best known through projects such as Kapotte Muziek, along with a long parallel involvement in labels, publishing, reviewing, and underground documentation. His work often moves between sound practice and print culture, which makes him especially well placed to write this kind of focused scene history.

Opus Dei Society formed part of that wider activity. Although its catalogue was small, the label gathered a harsh and highly specific group of artists and remains a meaningful point of reference within cassette culture, power electronics, and noise history. This book captures that scale well: specific, local, and deeply embedded in its moment.

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Weight: 0.2 kg

Publisher / Manufacturer: Korm Plastics
Country of origin: Netherlands
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